TUC must call a General Strike! – the message from CWU picket lines
THE TUC must call a general strike to bring down the Tories and kick them out now!' was the message from the CWU picket...
Rbs Thumbs Nose At Jobless!
The Royal Bank of Scotland, which received a £20bn bail-out with taxpayers’ money, is to proceed with a £1bn payout in annual bonuses. This is...
KBR FINED $402m IS TO BE POLICE PARTNER
KELLOG, Brown and Root (KBR) is on the shortlist for the ‘Business Partnering for Police’ (BPP) project. It is the company which pleaded guilty before...
A&E patients told ‘go home!’
MANY http://www.wrp.org.uk/admin.php?op=adminStorypatients who had been waiting seven-hours in the A&E department at Edmonton’s North Middlesex Hospital were told on Friday night to go home...
3-month-old Reem’s family slaughtered – Netanyahu blocking ceasefire deal – reports NYT
A BABY girl was the sole survivor of an overnight Israeli attack on a family home in Khan Younis which killed 10 people yesterday. The...
‘Bring companies guilty of corporate murder to justice’
ONE HUNDRED and forty four workers have lost their lives while on the job in 2017-18, with the GMB at its Annual Conference in...
Iraqis killed, abused and tortured by British troops
Scores of Iraqis were at the High Court in London yesterday demanding an Independent Public Inquiry into allegations that British interrogators abused, killed and...
27,100 REPOSSESSIONS IN 2007 – says Council of Mortgage Lenders
The number of people in the UK whose homes were repossessed last year rose by 21 per cent, to 27,100, compared to 22,400 in...
MEDICAL EDUCATION IS UNDER ATTACK! – Don’t lift fees cap says BMA
‘Medical education is under attack on several fronts,’ warns Professor Michael Rees, chair of the British Medical Association’s (BMA’s) Medical Academics Committee. In a BMA...
‘Welfare Reform Kills!’
UP TO one hundred trade unionists, disabled campaigners and their supporters demonstrated yesterday outside Maximus, the company who have taken over the work-capability assessment,...
NHS HAS ‘FRIGHTENING’ AND ‘UNFORGIVABLE’ STAFF CRISIS says the BMA doctors’ trade union
ENGLAND has an ‘unforgivable’ and ‘frightening’ NHS workforce crisis that severely threatens patient safety, says the BMA doctors’ union in research published today. The BMA...
Tory pay rise is a pay cut!
‘AFTER a decade-long pay cut we are asking ourselves: is this good enough? And of what we have seen, the answer is NO,’ senior...
‘International community must make a stand’
IN the wake of the unlawful US aggression against the peaceful Iranian nuclear sites, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday called on the international...
‘Performance-related’ pay NHS deal must be rejected!
GMB rightly recommended their members to reject the Tory government’s NHS pay offer, as a 6.5% pay increase over three years, when compared with...
Southern Rail strike ‘rock solid’!
RMT General Secretary Mick Cash joined the Southern Rail picket line in Eastbourne yesterday morning, declaring the strike ‘rock solid’. ‘Our members on Southern are...
GUAIDO SETS THE SCENE FOR US MILITARY INTERVENTION
VENEZUELA’S self-declared interim leader Juan Guaidó has set up a confrontation over US aid by calling for Venezuelans to cross borders and bring it...
Defend wages & jobs – RMT condemns bosses’ automation threat
‘THIS IS dangerous nonsense and must be opposed by the whole trade union movement,’ RMT General Secretary Mick Cash said yesterday responding to a...
20% VAT AND SAVAGE CUTS – imposed by Tory Lib-Dem Budget
TORY Chancellor Osborne yesterday confirmed the government’s intention to savagely attack child benefits, disability benefits and housing benefits in his Emergency Budget, whilst pushing...
James Murdoch May Have Lied
JAMES Murdoch came under further pressure yesterday as two Labour MPs suggested he may have lied to the House of Commons Culture, Media and...
FAMILIES £40bn IN DEBT! – ‘alarm bells should be ringing’
BRITISH public finances worsened in November, meaning that Tory Chancellor George Osborne will spectacularly fail to hit his budget deficit target for this year...
Israel sentences child to 10 years – Syria launches new offensive in Idlib
ISRAEL has sentenced a Palestinian child, Hammoudeh Khader Sheikh, to 10 years in prison, Quds News Network reported yesterday. The boy, 15, from occupied East...
SAVAGE CUTS – coming to Norfolk County Fire Service
Norfolk County Fire Service faces savage cuts as a result of the County Council being starved of cash in the Blair government’s ...
PCS CONDEMNS JOBS MASSACRE – while Purnell turns bounty hunters onto the unemployed
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) condemned yesterday’s announcement that Labour will slash a further 12,000 jobs and close an additional...
‘General Practice–is in danger of going under!’
HELEN Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs Council, the UK’s leading doctor, warned yesterday that General Practice is in danger of...
Powerful Night Tube Picket Lines In Place
POWERFUL picket lines were in place on London Underground (LU) Central and Victoria lines across the weekend, as RMT members took strike action against...
Labour Rescues Cameron Government
PM Cameron was rescued by Labour from a humiliating defeat in the House of Commons on Europe on Tuesday night after he faced his...
Banker is new chairman of NHS England
BANKER Richard Meddings has been appointed as the new chairman of NHS England. Meddings, who is also a non-executive director at Credit Suisse will replace...
17 SURGERIES UNDER THREAT! – in Hackney and Tower Hamlets
SEVENTEEN GP surgeries in Hackney and Tower Hamlets are facing closure from Tory-led coalition cuts. Five GP practices in Tower Hamlets and 12 in Hackney...
Bradford Tower Block Evacuated!
A TOWER block in Bradford with 160 flats has been evacuated over ‘serious fire safety deficiencies’. All the residents at Appleton Point were told to...
Israeli forces storm the Kamal Adwan Hospital!
ISRAELI forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza yesterday morning setting it alight. This was after airstrikes on a nearby building killed 53...
TORIES SPLIT – Johnson faces revolt over new restrictions
‘I WANT to see this community testing which has been successful in Liverpool rolled out right across the tier three areas, as much as...
Sri Lankan governor and cabinet resign! – as masses defy curfew and protest
THE CRISIS in Sri Lanka escalated yesterday as wild protests broke out on the streets over spiralling fuel and food prices, and daily blackouts...
7,000 NURSING POSTS GONE! – in just two years of the coalition
‘ONE by one, David Cameron has broken all the promises he made on the NHS. It is now struggling with his toxic medicine of...
NO CONFIDENCE IN MELDRUM! – London BMA demands huge campaign to smash Health Bill
BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum has been rocked by a ‘no confidence’ vote at last week’s meeting of the London Region of the BMA. ...
Bawa-Garba Victory
DOCTOR Hadiza Bawa-Garba, who was struck off the medical register, has won a further victory and will now be allowed to start working as...
Deported for refusing a DNA test! – Javid forced to apologise
THE HOME Office has been forced to apologise after people were wrongly deported for refusing to take DNA tests to prove they were entitled...
NO CAPITULATION! – proposed deal thrown out – strikes back on!
A DEAL between the University College Union (UCU) leadership and University UK (UUK) has been thrown out and the lecturers strikes are back on! This...
Queen’s Speech delayed – as Tory crisis worsens
SUCH is the developing crisis facing the Tory Party that the Queen’s Speech has now been delayed. It was due to be delivered on Monday...
‘We Will Win This Battle’ Say Serco Strikers
THERE was a very lively picket at the Royal London Hospital of Serco workers yesterday, on the third day of their current 14-day strike. They...
PASSPORT RETURNED – to MDC leader Tsvangirai
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has had his passport returned to him as have other Zimbabwe Opposition officials. The documents were taken off them at Harare...
Second youth shot in Greece
The Greek university students’ occupation committees have called for a mass demonstration next Tuesday in Athens. Marches are to be held in other cities...
Woodley announces strike ballot for BA cabin crew
The Unite union for British Airways’ 11,000 cabin crew, yesterday confirmed that a fresh ballot for strike action at BA is soon to get...
COVID IS BEING USED TO SACK TENS OF THOUSANDS says RMT leader Mick Lynch
RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has accused the Johnson government and the privately-run train operating companies of ‘using Covid as a smokescreen’ to rip...
Johnson refuses to rule out raising taxation!
PRIME Minister Boris Johnson yesterday refused to rebut his Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s warning in Saturday’s Daily Mail newspaper that ‘very real shortages’ can be...
McDonnell offers cooperation if Osborne drops Credits Bill
AHEAD of today’s debate in the House of Lords, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said that Labour would ‘co-operate’ in future efforts to review the...

















